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I love the museum of most things. Not sport, no time for sport (I don't understand it). I collect anything I want and try to display it rather than hide away. Definitely ANTI FASCIST Location Gurnaikurnai land Australia

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 1h

Critics argue the changes will unfairly impact farmers, property and venture capital, while indexing could increase the number of retirees paying the tax, now estimated at 80,000 people (SMH).

You have that much money that you have to hide it behind the veil of a Super Account so as to not pay tax

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 1h

Quirky Friday Facts

In the classic 90s film that mocked everything that Americans thought defined being British or more specifically Home Counties English, Four Weddings and a Funeral, in this scene the camera is a Konica Pop, manufactured in Japan from around 1982 to 1988. Red is one of 6 colours

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 1h

Quirky Friday Facts

For those who think it was better 'back in the day's.

Australia 1948 - tea and butter rationing

Australia got its first Holden easy, but preparing a picnic was challenging.

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 1h

Slow hand clap to the non voting Americans.

This is down to YOU!

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 1h

This is something I knew once upon a time, but obviously forgot.

It actually hurt my brain to realise I'd forgotten.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7h

lede = introductory section in journalism

bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information

Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

It really does give me whiplash to contemplate how fast our society went from “the Internet isn’t the real world and isn’t that important” to “the Internet is the only real thing that is important.”

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2h

Isaac Stanley-Becker traveled to Portland and spent time at the demonstration that Donald Trump wants to crush. What he found is an atmosphere that is more like a carnival than combat:

Portland’s ‘War Zone’ Is Like Burning Man for the Terminally Online

There’s more absurdity than menace on the city’s streets—at least for now.

bit.ly

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Milennial Zero @milennialzero.bsky.social · 2h

This is what destroys democracy and creates American style oligarchy.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Earlier that day, four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 2h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

...and still most governments underestimate the number of people appalled by Israel's actions.

My question has always been WHO ARE THOSE ADVISING THEM?

Inside the NSW government chat group as the Sydney Harbour Bridge pro-Palestinian march unfolded

Documents obtained by the ABC reveal NSW authorities were caught off guard by the scale of the pro-Palestinian march on Sydney Harbour Bridge in August

www.abc.net.au

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 13h

Netflix Australia

DO THE RIGHT THING AND GET GAMBLING ADVERTS OFF NETFLIX AUSTRALIA

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 15h

AFL stadiums ?

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 15h

Oh fuck off.

This is just the DoD looking for dollars.

There haven't been ANY CLASHES at all for SEVENTY plus yes SEVENTY plus years in Korea.

Australia becoming Trumpist.

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 15h

Made in Salop

Not something you see very often

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 17h

www.climate200.com.au/petition/hel...

Help Katya send a message

www.climate200.com.au

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 17h

Boxer's Café

Tunsgate in Guildford

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 17h

Stoney Creek trestle railway bridge.

I think the last train crossing was around 1980. Sadly it's slowly rotting away.

Near Nowa Nowa in the Colquhoun Forest.

Gurnaikurnai land is different.

#Trains
#Bridges
#Victoria
#Australia
#Oppo
#Photography
#BlackandWhite
#Mono
#Greyscale

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 18h

ffs

It's like having 60kmph speed limits everywhere except in cities because.....cities

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 18h

Oh god I love it.

Americans what have you done?

Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 18h

Trump: Suspending who?

All three of them:
“WTF? Habeas Corpus? Never heard of him, but he sounds like a foreigner!”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 18h

Trump: Suspending who?

All three of them:
“WTF? Habeas Corpus? Never heard of him, but he sounds like a foreigner!”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

“Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 18h

'demonstrably'

.....and yet

GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 18h

My youngest son said it ONCE in 1995, never again.

He even still remembers our conversation (ok my conversation) and repeats it to his girls.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 21h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Nathan Wind @nwind.bsky.social · 1d

same Australia where two blokes will fight to the death because one cut another off half a km back

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 18h

Gotten?

@#$&!

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GF (say it quickly) @guildford.bsky.social · 21h

Mingling Waters in Nowa Nowa via Stony Creek old railway bridge.